RE: Re: My visit with a doc yesterday...

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In a message dated 10/20/2004 9:50:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,

LestatL382@... writes:

> At 49 with your periods changing you are in perimenopause

but not necessarily. as i mentioned, i was the same way until proper

treatment...and then the periods changed back to normal and regular.

cindi

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In a message dated 10/20/2004 10:03:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,

LestatL382@... writes:

> the average age of menopause is 50. At

> 49 with periods changing most likely it is perimenopause.

>

I'll be 49 this month...and I thought that was it too....cause it had been

that way for several years. Imagine my surprise to know it was the hypo causing

it in my case. I sometimes wonder if it isn't not enough progesterone and/or

thyroid hormone that causes those heavy periods near menopause...I'm not so

sure it really is normal.

cindi

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In a message dated 10/21/2004 9:12:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,

marin@... writes:

> . But it was thyroid disease that

> made it such a nightmarish thing, with horrible swelling, the circulation

> being cut off to my thighs from fluid and swelling and blood clots during

> these hellish periods.

Yes. same here. I also tested very low in progesterone and have started

progesterone cream about a month ago. But I have been lucky in that the

menstrual problems stopped just with Armour. Interestingly enough, I have found

among

some younger folks that I think are low thyroid that the PMS/heavy periods is

a common problem. I also remember that my undiagnosed Hashi's mom has this

problem and the docs wanted her to have a hysterectomy, but she waited on

menopause. And another friend who has Hashi's had her swollen neck discovered

when

she was waiting on a D & C for heavy periods. I imagine all her problems were

also just the Hashi's.

It's a shame that gynecologists rarely ever mention to their patients that

extreme PMS/menstrual problems could be a hypo problem. Nor do dermatologists

mention it. Nor gasterontologists. Nor cardiologists. Nor pulmonary

specialists. Etc. Etc. One starts to think conspiracy theories after a

while...but

maybe it is just uninformed. But it's a bit scary this is never looked at for

the origin of problems.

Cindi

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It IS lack of progesterone that causes this. When this was going on with me

in perimenopause, the periods had been coming one and two weeks apart for

around two yrs, and I was test proven to have NO progesterone at a little

bit earlier age than some. I was 29 or 30 when they started, and by the

time I was in the process of getting my second opinion for a hyst at age 35,

that period was one long period for almost 3 months or so. The female

oncologist who advised me to a surgeon tested me and said I had plenty of

estrogen, but was making no progesterone. But it was thyroid disease that

made it such a nightmarish thing, with horrible swelling, the circulation

being cut off to my thighs from fluid and swelling and blood clots during

these hellish periods. I barely noticed my periods before I got a

tubiligation at age 28. We know now that this may have something to do with

the signal interruptions back and forth, in the endocrine system. I am now

53 and probably don't have a whole lot of estrogen either, but one thing I

know is that it outweighs the progesterone by 100 fold, you can bet on that.

I've been doing the progesterone cream now for what, 6 to 8 wks or so? I do

sleep better, but I still think that that one little ovary I have left does

have slight activity because my sleep changes in cycles, sort of like a

menstrual cycle. Great sleep for a couple of wks, then not so good for a wk

or so. It's still like clockwork, even though I haven't had periods or a

uterus for 17 yrs.

Re: Re: My visit with a doc

yesterday...

>

> In a message dated 10/20/2004 10:03:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,

> LestatL382@... writes:

>

> > the average age of menopause is 50. At

> > 49 with periods changing most likely it is perimenopause.

> >

>

> I'll be 49 this month...and I thought that was it too....cause it had been

> that way for several years. Imagine my surprise to know it was the hypo

causing

> it in my case. I sometimes wonder if it isn't not enough progesterone

and/or

> thyroid hormone that causes those heavy periods near menopause...I'm not

so

> sure it really is normal.

> cindi

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Cindi,

What you are saying sounds right to me! I've heard hypothyroid can cause

heavy periods and since estrogen is what causes the bleeding, it makes sense

that if there's not enough progesterone to balance the estrogen there would

be heavy bleeding. Just my opinion.

in Va.

In a message dated 10/20/2004 10:03:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,

LestatL382@... writes:

> the average age of menopause is 50. At

> 49 with periods changing most likely it is perimenopause.

>

I'll be 49 this month...and I thought that was it too....cause it had been

that way for several years. Imagine my surprise to know it was the hypo

causing

it in my case. I sometimes wonder if it isn't not enough progesterone

and/or

thyroid hormone that causes those heavy periods near menopause...I'm not so

sure it really is normal.

cindi